Fight at Lunch

Today during lunch there was a fistfight between two boys, Chris Roche and Ahmed Webe. I am not totally sure what the motives of this fight were, however I was there (the next table over, to be precise) when it happened so I can offer a pretty reliable account of what happened.
There I was around 11:15 in the Cafeteria when I suddenly realized that the second half of my cookie that had been sitting in front of me while I was studying my physics was no longer there. I looked at Hannah on my left, who happened to be chewing something, so I asked rather accusingly "Did you take my cookie?". She looked at me suddenly and there was a short silence that was rather unusual for a high school cafeteria and which abruptly ended when a chair about ten feet away hit the floor with a crack. I looked over Hannah's shoulder to see Ahmed and Chris standing up face to face, and Hannah was just turning around when suddenly both boys starting going at each other. It was impossible to tell who had thrown the first punch but they were quickly on the floor rolling around, Ahmed's friend yelling at them to stop. Furniture was quickly pushed away by the boys' struggles on the floor, and I had never seen Mairian, who was sitting next to Hannah and closest to the boys, move so fast in the entire time I've known her. Mr. Cooke, the gallant English teacher, quickly jumped to the scene trying to force to boys apart and getting punched in the jaw. Tyler, one of Chris' friends, also intervened by grabbing Chris while Mr. Cooke held onto Ahmed. Soon other teachers rushed into the action, although Mr. Cooke and Tyler had handled the worst of it. Meanwhile Chris is on top, punching Ahmed in the shoulder/chest/neck area, who is choking him by the collar of his shirt. Both of their faces are bright red and I was suddenly reminded of the Ancient Greeks and the stories we liked to hear when we were little of knights struggling with great beasts - only I couldn't tell which boy was the knight. All the students in 1st lunch had rushed to the show and my table had front row seats. Finally more authoritative male teachers showed up and wrenched the boys away from each other, Chris' shirt ripping off in the process. Chris then broke free from the restraining hands of the male teachers and went running shirtless up the stairs. When he was halfway up, the cafeteria audience suddenly broke into applause accompanied with shouts of "Bravo!". I've heard that both boys have gotten 3 days' suspension, and that Chris is banned from baseball. A huge mess of crushed popcorn and chips was briefly glimpsed before a horde of tenth grade boys converged on the table where Tyler was sitting. Later that day other boys were congratulating Chris on his Facebook for his triumph.
What had provoked the fight was Chris throwing a bottle cap at Ahmed's head and Ahmed responding "That's not fuckin' funny".
Although the fight was hugely entertaining, the repercussions of said scuffle are, in my view, entirely not worth it. Personally I think our school must have issues with punishment because it seems to me like teachers are afraid to do it and must be pushed to the edge to provoke real consequences. I also think this is caused by the size of our school (not the big) and how rarely someone ever does something very serious (rare = once a month/less).